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Unpacking My Father’s Bookstore brings to life the history of J. Roth / Bookseller of Fine & Scholarly Judaica, which was a microcosm of the Los Angeles Jewish community from 1966 to 1994 and one of the premier Jewish bookstores in the United States.
List of contents
Contents
Sotheby’s, Manhattan, 1985 1. Grand Opening (
objects)
2. The Inventory (
commerce)
3. The Storefront (
place)
Greystone Park, New Jersey, 1935 4. The Second Store (
gender)
5. The Sales Floor (
collection)
U.S.S.R., 1976 6. The Book-Lined Wall (
design)
7. The Shipping Room (
sound)
8. Collection’s End (
networks)
Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, 2021 Locations and Dates in Operation
Acknowledgements
Works Cited and Consulted
About the author
LAURENCE ROTH is the Charles B. Degenstein Professor of English and director of the Jewish & Israel Studies Program and The Build Collaborative at Susquehanna University, Pennsylvania. He is the author of
Inspecting Jews: American Jewish Detective Stories (Rutgers University Press, 2003), and coeditor, with Nadia Valman, of
The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Jewish Cultures.
